Lighthouse

Song written by Kim & Ricky Wilde.
Fifth track from the album Closer.

Ricky about ‘Lighthouse’

We wrote ‘Lighthouse’, and that was going to be on Here Come the Aliens, but for various reasons it wasn’t used. But I really loved the song. When we wrote Solstice, we couldn’t really think of a really interesting way to start the song. So I was listening to ‘Lighthouse’ and I just thought, ‘how about we just sing the chorus acapella, and then go into ‘Solstice’?’. And it kind of worked. I thought it was a really interesting way of introducing the song. It’s not something you would normally do on any song really, to sing the chorus of another song, it’s a bit of a weird thing to do, but we always loved the song and it stuck with us. When we came to do this album I’d heard it a couple of weeks before. I mentioned it to KIm. I just thought this song was so beautiful and the vocal that she did on it was so lovely, I just thought it would be a lovely addition to the album. (1)

Kim about ‘Lighthouse’

I’d forgotten of course that it had its previous incarnation on the Here Come the Aliens album, and then of course we sang the ‘Lighthouse’ chorus at the beginning of ‘Solstice’ live. And that was a really lovely acapella moment and I really enjoyed that. As a singer I really enjoyed that. And then to reintroduce the song – it’s almost a bit like when we had ‘Numinous’ and we put ‘Numinous’ out, I think it was on the greatest hits album, but we’d had a little snippet of it on the Here Come the Aliens album. And so it’s similar to that in a way. (1)

Credits

Drums: Jonathan Atkinson
Bass: Ricky Wilde
Guitar: Ricky Wilde, Neil Jones
Keyboards: Ricky Wilde
Backing vocals: Ricky Wilde, Scarlett Wilde

Interview source

(1) Unsung Heroes podcast, 20 December 2024

Lyrics

Watching the sailboats drift so calm and sure
Upon a pale blue sea
Just like me
Moved by the gentle breeze
The storm has past at last there’s time to breathe
I am free
I always believe that we had made a pact
But now I know I’m never coming back

Lighthouse shine for me
I’ve been drifting so far
Guide me back from the sea
To the place I was before
I’ve been losing my way
Now I can’t see the stars anymore

And now as I reach the sand my body cold
No one to take my hand
I understand
Truth harder than stone
Dark as an endless sleep
And now we know the devil and the deep

Lighthouse shine for me
I’ve been drifting so far
Guide me back from the sea
To the place I was before
I’ve been losing my way
Now I can’t see the stars

Listen to what she says
The voice inside my head
Tells me the way to go
Here in the dark I know
A lighthouse shines for me

Watching the sailboats drift so calm and sure
Upon a pale blue sea

Lighthouse shine for me
I’ve been drifting so far
Guide me back from the sea
To the place I was before
I’ve been losing my way
Now I can’t see the stars anymore

No I can’t see the stars anymore